AnishChatterjee

As great as the A-side is (and indeed, it was the song that originally got me interested in TFS & eventually The Drones), the B-side is probably even better. Where the original version by Tasmanian band The Nation Blue is a slow, blues-y folk rock song with the occasional build-up, TFS' version is absolutely rousing. "High...so high" sing Fiona/Erica in what almost becomes a mantra, much like "I can feel a cold change is coming" during that epic, approaching-storm of a ... read more

Moving on from the raw and unhinged "Wait Long...", "Gala Mill" slows things down - which not only allows for them to explore new emotional terrain, but also seems to enhance the visceral impact of their music ten-fold.

"Jezebel" is absolutely hair-raising in its emotional intensity: a tale of war, death, love, humanity, massacre, oppression and everything else in between over a tightly coiled Birthday-Party-meets-Gun-Club post-punk. The slow, Neil Young-esque ... read more

This man was born to tell stories like the ones found on this album: dense in details, characters so well fleshed-out that you feel you've met them somewhere, stray adjectives and words that only add more color and layers of meaning to the songs as you re-listen to them.

Speaking of songs, this album has 8...and yet clocks in at over 1 hour. But musically that's not a problem in this album's case as despite just focusing on Gareth's guitar and his voice, his often finger-picked guitar-playing ... read more

This might just be the most underrated rock album of the past decade. Though the same could be said about the rest of the band's discography, even the sources most sympathetic toward the band's albums tend to skip or gloss over this album as a sort of stepping stone for the greatness to come. Which is a real crying shame, because this might just be the best garage rock album of the current century. Raw, dark, noisy, uncompromising, heavy, dense, poetic and absolutely burning with passion...this ... read more